If those "millions of customers" quit acting like sheep ("OK, we'll take whatever crap you have with NO input from us, your customers"), then maybe things will change. Otherwise, you deserve what you get.
I've seen SO many people whining about MS' forced reboots, etc. STOP! If there is not a sensible option available, demand that your vendor make a version that can be sensibly updated. Too many purchasing decisions just don't have any sensible criteria. ("Oh, it's built on Win XP and you aren't updating it? OK - scratch!")
If you think for one second that Trump would go to war with China over Taiwan, you're delusional. First, he doesn't even know the difference between the two. Second, he'll follow the money, which is China.
...is this: "A Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center spokesperson told Stat that they believed this recommendation was not given to a real patient, and was just a part of system testing." Isn't this the kind of thing that testing is designed to uncover? It sounds to me like at least this part of the process is working, unlike the asshole who fed the model "fake data".
Normally, I don't respond to ACs, but...it just so happens that in the late '90s/early '00s, I was working at Intel and attended a Linux Summit at the mothership.
ESR, Linus Himself, etc. were there and I had the chance to talk with Linus at the end of the talks and we discussed this very issue. I posited that the GPL license, which "forces" changes to be available vs the BSD license which "allows" changes to be available, would - ultimately - cause the Linux ecosystem to grow more rapidly than the BSD side. He disagreed, but with no vehemence, and I suspect that he somewhat agreed, but didn't want to push that aspect of it. He and ESR both gave really compelling talks - great experience!
In the era where "online sales will rule everything!" seems omniscient, I'm very pleased to see SOME level of creative thinking. Rather than just roll over, they're trying something different enough to distinguish themselves. Good on them! I hope it works.
They are already doing this, not only for medical reasons, but: should you get locked up; sent to a re-education camp; denied travel, even on trains; get a job; rent an apartment; etc. We're getting there.
I worked on a Hospital Management System in the US for 9 years, so - to a degree - I sympathize. You miss the bigger point, though, which is that simplifying as much of the BS associated with billing frees up dollars, loons, etc. for actually - you know - delivering healthcare. Heresy, I know, but....
Total 100% Organic, Dolphin-Free Bullshit!!! We are already paying MUCH more than any other "civilized"* country, and yet not only we do not cover EVERYONE, as the other "civilized" countries, we have worse outcomes.
This Bullshit about cost totally ignores what we are ALREADY paying for shit-sandwich outcomes. Grow the fuck up. * = To call yourself civilized, you kind of have to act that way, even if it hurts a little in some tiny way.
Supposedly, the biggest vulnerabilities are from cloud providers due to their extensive use of virtualization in their environs. However, I've never seen a real server that surfs the web using any browser. Stupidity is rampant, paranoia rules and perspective has completely left the building when it comes to Spectre/Meltdown. The most difficult "vulnerability" to leverage known to mankind has everyone scurrying like mad while basic security - allowing the Equifax breach, say - gets a passing nod. Well done, guys!
I wrote-in Bernie. Living in North Georgia, I knew that Trump would win Georgia anyway so I voted for the guy who would have wiped the floor with Trump. I say that knowing that 90%+ of Trump's vote was actually ABC (Anybody But Clinton).
I've got mod points, but I'm gonna burn them here to support you more fully. Specifically, we collectively - as Americans - have allowed ourselves to become incredibly stupid and brain-washed to the point that we prioritize who kneels at a sports game over who will guarantee a civilized level of medical coverage for all citizens. As an old-school American patriot, it greatly saddens me to say that we deserve our declining fate. When the President and Vice-President regularly appear on idiot shows (Fox and Friends, Hannity and Limbaugh, the epitome of "irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas") to get their political blowjiobs and the broad electorate elects them...again, we deserve our fate of decline. Jesus wept.
You failed, fundamentally, do answer my largest question: Presuming that you can read a blob of data from cache (which, yes, can be done...), show me how you make sense of that data?!? Is it code? Is it data? How Da Hell do you know? I've heard Peter on Ars go on and on about how your passwords are leaked. Bullshit! Show me how (other than, say, running 'strings' or 'grep') on a small pile of cache data and make fucking sense out of it! Regular viruses KNOW what they want and grab it. This is cache-tickling looking for a needle in a tremendously large haystack!
OK, show me a WORKING implementation where a guest OS can read anything useful out of a hypervisor's cache. Does anyone have ANY idea of how hard it must be to grab a (roughly) 16KB of cache data (presuming that it is 100% accurate, of which I am yet to be convinced) and determine exactly what that chunk represents? I'm still calling Shenanigans on this vulnerability being useful in any real context, until/unless someone can demonstrate: reading cache data via this vulnerability and THEN knowing just WTF that data was!
Can we be real for one moment, please? In the realm of software vulnerabilities, these are: 1) Ridiculously difficult to implement. At the end of the day, you are fundamentally tickling the cache and timing the resultant reads to try to determine the content of that cache. Is there ANY reasonable way to "read" the contents of said cache and determine what context a blob of data means?!? 2)Beyond trial code that is ALL based on the original POC distributed by virus vendors, etc. there is NO known implementation in the wild. 3) This requires the virus to be running ON your fucking computer!! If you are running ANY virus on your computer, you're hosed. 4) Derived from 3), for the forseeable future ANY virus on your system is about 28Giga-times more likely to be a standard, run-of-the-mill virus. Meantime, everyone is running around wanting to burn their CPUs because they are "vulnerable". FFS!! Does NO ONE have ANY perspective left anymore?!?/rant
ANY technology that can start spreading internet access to more people at less cost is unequivocally a GoodThing(TM). Heck, even here in North Georgia, USA, I'd LOVE to have this as an option. You see, I'm at the mercy of sole-provider Windstream. Nuff said.
At some point, you have to admit that Tesla continues to break new ground and drive auto/manmufacturing technology harder and faster than any other automaker. Are they perfect and able (yet) to churn out 2 million vehicles a year? Nope, but they are sure as shit shaking up the traditional automakers, who desperately needed it. I'm rooting for the guy to win Bigly(TM):-) .
...is exactly why - in the same way that a broken clock is right twice a day - Trump is correct to start tightening the screws on China. Granted, it's about 30 years too late, but....
...(as mentioned in other comments): 1) Don't trust another company with your critical IT infrastructure! 2) Have redundant facilities with different ISPs. 3) Have tested backup/standby power systems.
Yes, it is expensive, but - how much would it cost you to be down a week? A month? There is no free ride.
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If those "millions of customers" quit acting like sheep ("OK, we'll take whatever crap you have with NO input from us, your customers"), then maybe things will change. Otherwise, you deserve what you get.
....don't buy it.
I've seen SO many people whining about MS' forced reboots, etc. STOP!
If there is not a sensible option available, demand that your vendor make a version that can be sensibly updated. Too many purchasing decisions just don't have any sensible criteria. ("Oh, it's built on Win XP and you aren't updating it? OK - scratch!")
If you think for one second that Trump would go to war with China over Taiwan, you're delusional.
First, he doesn't even know the difference between the two. Second, he'll follow the money, which is China.
...is this: "A Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center spokesperson told Stat that they believed this recommendation was not given to a real patient, and was just a part of system testing."
Isn't this the kind of thing that testing is designed to uncover? It sounds to me like at least this part of the process is working, unlike the asshole who fed the model "fake data".
Normally, I don't respond to ACs, but...it just so happens that in the late '90s/early '00s, I was working at Intel and attended a Linux Summit at the mothership.
ESR, Linus Himself, etc. were there and I had the chance to talk with Linus at the end of the talks and we discussed this very issue.
I posited that the GPL license, which "forces" changes to be available vs the BSD license which "allows" changes to be available, would - ultimately - cause the Linux ecosystem to grow more rapidly than the BSD side.
He disagreed, but with no vehemence, and I suspect that he somewhat agreed, but didn't want to push that aspect of it.
He and ESR both gave really compelling talks - great experience!
Too bad I commented on this thread and don't have mod points. Your post deserves them
In the era where "online sales will rule everything!" seems omniscient, I'm very pleased to see SOME level of creative thinking. Rather than just roll over, they're trying something different enough to distinguish themselves. Good on them! I hope it works.
They are already doing this, not only for medical reasons, but: should you get locked up; sent to a re-education camp; denied travel, even on trains; get a job; rent an apartment; etc. We're getting there.
I worked on a Hospital Management System in the US for 9 years, so - to a degree - I sympathize. You miss the bigger point, though, which is that simplifying as much of the BS associated with billing frees up dollars, loons, etc. for actually - you know - delivering healthcare.
Heresy, I know, but....
You know, I really hate it when I just burned mod points on a trite subject. Consolation prize is that you're already maxed out.
Total 100% Organic, Dolphin-Free Bullshit!!!
We are already paying MUCH more than any other "civilized"* country, and yet not only we do not cover EVERYONE, as the other "civilized" countries, we have worse outcomes.
This Bullshit about cost totally ignores what we are ALREADY paying for shit-sandwich outcomes.
Grow the fuck up.
* = To call yourself civilized, you kind of have to act that way, even if it hurts a little in some tiny way.
Supposedly, the biggest vulnerabilities are from cloud providers due to their extensive use of virtualization in their environs.
However, I've never seen a real server that surfs the web using any browser. Stupidity is rampant, paranoia rules and perspective has completely left the building when it comes to Spectre/Meltdown.
The most difficult "vulnerability" to leverage known to mankind has everyone scurrying like mad while basic security - allowing the Equifax breach, say - gets a passing nod. Well done, guys!
...MCGA! Hey, his supporters will find SOME justification for it.
Just HOW in da fuck can a medical database be "heavily politicized"?!?
You "conservative"s (in quotes for a reason) make me sick!
I wrote-in Bernie. Living in North Georgia, I knew that Trump would win Georgia anyway so I voted for the guy who would have wiped the floor with Trump.
I say that knowing that 90%+ of Trump's vote was actually ABC (Anybody But Clinton).
And, sadly, a voter is TMR, hence our predicament.'
"People are up in arms about everything Trump's administration is doing. "
And with DAMN good reason, you omitted.
I've got mod points, but I'm gonna burn them here to support you more fully.
Specifically, we collectively - as Americans - have allowed ourselves to become incredibly stupid and brain-washed to the point that we prioritize who kneels at a sports game over who will guarantee a civilized level of medical coverage for all citizens.
As an old-school American patriot, it greatly saddens me to say that we deserve our declining fate.
When the President and Vice-President regularly appear on idiot shows (Fox and Friends, Hannity and Limbaugh, the epitome of "irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas") to get their political blowjiobs and the broad electorate elects them...again, we deserve our fate of decline. Jesus wept.
You failed, fundamentally, do answer my largest question: Presuming that you can read a blob of data from cache (which, yes, can be done...), show me how you make sense of that data?!?
Is it code? Is it data? How Da Hell do you know? I've heard Peter on Ars go on and on about how your passwords are leaked. Bullshit! Show me how (other than, say, running 'strings' or 'grep') on a small pile of cache data and make fucking sense out of it!
Regular viruses KNOW what they want and grab it. This is cache-tickling looking for a needle in a tremendously large haystack!
OK, show me a WORKING implementation where a guest OS can read anything useful out of a hypervisor's cache. Does anyone have ANY idea of how hard it must be to grab a (roughly) 16KB of cache data (presuming that it is 100% accurate, of which I am yet to be convinced) and determine exactly what that chunk represents?
I'm still calling Shenanigans on this vulnerability being useful in any real context, until/unless someone can demonstrate: reading cache data via this vulnerability and THEN knowing just WTF that data was!
Can we be real for one moment, please? /rant
In the realm of software vulnerabilities, these are:
1) Ridiculously difficult to implement. At the end of the day, you are fundamentally tickling the cache and timing the resultant reads to try to determine the content of that cache. Is there ANY reasonable way to "read" the contents of said cache and determine what context a blob of data means?!?
2)Beyond trial code that is ALL based on the original POC distributed by virus vendors, etc. there is NO known implementation in the wild.
3) This requires the virus to be running ON your fucking computer!! If you are running ANY virus on your computer, you're hosed.
4) Derived from 3), for the forseeable future ANY virus on your system is about 28Giga-times more likely to be a standard, run-of-the-mill virus. Meantime, everyone is running around wanting to burn their CPUs because they are "vulnerable".
FFS!! Does NO ONE have ANY perspective left anymore?!?
ANY technology that can start spreading internet access to more people at less cost is unequivocally a GoodThing(TM).
Heck, even here in North Georgia, USA, I'd LOVE to have this as an option. You see, I'm at the mercy of sole-provider Windstream.
Nuff said.
At some point, you have to admit that Tesla continues to break new ground and drive auto/manmufacturing technology harder and faster than any other automaker. :-) .
Are they perfect and able (yet) to churn out 2 million vehicles a year? Nope, but they are sure as shit shaking up the traditional automakers, who desperately needed it. I'm rooting for the guy to win Bigly(TM)
...is exactly why - in the same way that a broken clock is right twice a day - Trump is correct to start tightening the screws on China.
Granted, it's about 30 years too late, but....
...(as mentioned in other comments):
1) Don't trust another company with your critical IT infrastructure!
2) Have redundant facilities with different ISPs. 3) Have tested backup/standby power systems.
Yes, it is expensive, but - how much would it cost you to be down a week? A month? There is no free ride.